Why do YOU want to join the Royal Marines?

themattmeister · Post by **themattmeister** » Wed 27 Sep, 2006 6:59 pm

Pretty much the same as you there mate.

Probably not as enthusiastic about the last one, being how ungrateful most of them are. Prefer to fight for the people in Iraq and Afghanistan and hopefully one day Darfur, at the moment anyway.

Foxtricks · Post by **Foxtricks** » Wed 27 Sep, 2006 7:12 pm

To look like Conan the lesbian

Foxy...........

Artist · Post by **Artist** » Wed 27 Sep, 2006 9:32 pm

To meet nice people in foreign climes, interact with them and catch a dose.

Artist

Foxtricks · Post by **Foxtricks** » Thu 28 Sep, 2006 6:41 pm

That reminds me must get a check up

Foxy......

sneaky beaky · Post by **sneaky beaky** » Thu 28 Sep, 2006 8:33 pm

MMM Pies

All the following are relevant and are a real reason for joining the RM instead of any others.

My reasons would have to be to fight along side the most elite soldiers in the British Armed Forces.
To have a hard and challenging life.
To be able to say i have achieved something in life.
To stand proud that i will have completed one of the hardest physical and mental tests known to man.
To be able to wear the green beret.
To train hard and be the best i can be.
For the fun.lol.
And last but not least to fight for my country and for peoples freedom.

The big question is - Can you fulfil those challenges?
I hope so - then you may - God willing, wear the Green hat!!

Sneaky

sneaky beaky · Post by **sneaky beaky** » Fri 29 Sep, 2006 8:49 pm

Actually, I have just looked at my last post and I must have been under the influence of the Bacardi and Coke.

Looking back - when I did join, I had none of those aspirations.

I didn't know, at 18 years old, that the RM were the "Most elite soldiers in the British armed Forces."

That I would have a "hard and challenging life."

I couldn't even say, that I looked forward to a " Hard and challenging life", although I must have seen it that way.

"To be able to say i have achieved something in life." I have to say that the thought never entered my head!!

"To stand proud that i will have completed one of the hardest physical and mental tests known to man." Never even thought of it!!

"To be able to wear the green beret." Didn't even know what it was!! But - having got it - I was the proudest man in Mansfield!!

"To train hard and be the best i can be.
For the fun.lol.
And last but not least to fight for my country and for peoples freedom."

We wern't taught this sort of bullshit in those days.

The Royal Marines, apart from being the finest fighting force that this country has, is also the best family. If you have a Royal Marine friend, he is a friend for life.

Sneaky

flighty · Post by **flighty** » Fri 29 Sep, 2006 9:19 pm

Sneaky ...

Your response confirms why I hold you in such esteem.

What a good bloke and good mate you are.

Love you rucks, matey

Jayne xx

Foxtricks · Post by **Foxtricks** » Sat 30 Sep, 2006 9:26 am

I still reckon looking like Conan is the real reason people do it

Foxy....

GPMG · Post by **GPMG** » Mon 16 Oct, 2006 4:49 pm

My Brother was in the Corps and I had grown up hearing tales of beer, good mates, NI and Norway, Hong Kong etc.

Stupidly I wanted to prove that I was as good as him, wanting respect etc in eyes of parents/peers.

Should have left it a couple of years and joined up later for different reasons.

fogarty · Post by **fogarty** » Fri 20 Oct, 2006 2:31 am

My reasons for wanting to join are mix of those, political and probably some kind of sub conscious effect from my parents.

I read a book about the Royal Marines and thought "This sounds like something I want to do." I've been in the CCF for 2 1/2 years now and really enjoy the military life (I know we don't get shot at, but still...) and I've had my heart set on the RM ever since.

Paratrooper01 · Post by **Paratrooper01** » Fri 20 Oct, 2006 11:53 am

Dont forget travel to some of the worlds greatest sh*tholes....like Iraq and Afghanistan

chassytots · Post by **chassytots** » Sat 21 Oct, 2006 12:12 am

My bloke says it because I made him! lol

Spetz · Post by **Spetz** » Tue 14 Nov, 2006 4:51 pm

I'd recommend that you also talk about what skills and abilities you think you can offer the Royal Marine Commandos

sneaky beaky · Post by **sneaky beaky** » Tue 14 Nov, 2006 8:28 pm

Spetz.

I'd recommend that you also talk about what skills and abilities you think you can offer the Royal Marine Commandos

As a 17/18 year old, you have no skills or abilities to offer the Royal Marines, apart from a reasonably fit body and an alert mind.
They will teach you the rest.

Aspirations are fine but when you join the Corps, all those aspirations will hopefully, be entwined in the training, that will make you a Royal Marine.

Don't get to carried away by the rhetoric.

I did 23 years with the Finest Corps in the world. But even I would say that, that phrase is propaganda.
We might believe that it is true - but there are a few other Regiments that might think the same thing!! (Paras spring to mind!)

At the end of the day - once you join the Royal Marines - you join a family.

You live together, you fight together and if you have noticed anything from these threads on Mil. Forums or Onceamarine, the camaraderie lives forever and in a much stronger vein than in any other unit within the British Forces.

Here endeth the lesson.

Sneaky

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